Memcached is a memory caching system, which is used to enhance the performance of database-driven websites by caching the requests and the replies between the website visitor and the server. To put it in simple terms, every time a given page on such a website is requested, the script calls its database to request the information that should be shown to the visitor. In case the latter clicks on a link to go to some other web page, the entire procedure is executed again and this generates a lot of database requests and high load on the server, particularly if the site has lots of concurrent visitors. Memcached "remembers" this information exchange, so if any of these web pages is opened again, the script no longer has to request any data from the database, as everything is provided by the caching platform. In this way, the overall speed of your site will "soar" and you will have more pleased visitors and they’ll be able to navigate through your site faster. In addition, Memcached updates its cache when any information in the database is edited, so the website visitors will never wind up seeing out-of-date content.
Memcached in Cloud Web Hosting
You can take advantage of the Memcached caching system with all Linux cloud web hosting that we offer. It’s offered as an upgrade, which you can activate with only a few clicks from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It requires an extension, which is pre-installed on our cloud platform, so you can begin using Memcached once you add it. The upgrade is subdivided into two parts, which will give you more flexibility depending on the Internet sites that you want to use it for. The first part shows the number of the sites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the so-called ‘instances’, whereas the second one is related to the memory, in other words – to how much content the system will be able to cache. You can get more memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you’ve ordered, the more data will be cached, which may be a pretty good idea for traffic-heavy sites with large-sized databases and many concurrent visitors. In this way, you can boost the speed of every script-based site hosted on our cloud servers without efforts.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You can get the Memcached distributed memory caching system as an upgrade with all our semi-dedicated hosting packages and since it works with any script-powered app, you can use it for every site that you host on our platform, no matter what application you have used – WordPress, Joomla™ or Mambo, a custom-developed application, etc. You can order the upgrade through the respective section of the Hepsia Control Panel from which you manage your semi-dedicated server account, and you can select two different features – the number of instances and the amount of memory that they will use. To put it simply, these things define the number of the websites that will use the Memcached system and how much system memory the system will be able to use to cache your information. The two things are offered separately for more freedom and one instance does not come with a particular amount of system memory. You can make use of Memcached with any kind of website and both you and your visitors will swiftly distinguish the difference in the overall performance.
Memcached in VPS Hosting
You will get Memcached with any of the virtual private server plans offered by us when you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel and you will be able to activate the platform through the section with the same name. The setup requires a couple of mouse clicks and you will notice the difference in the performance of your sites almost immediately. The amount of system memory that the Memcached platform can employ to store data depends on the particular Virtual Private Server package that you’ve chosen, but in any case it will be at least several hundred MB, which is quite enough even for several traffic-hungry sites. You can use Memcached with websites based on Joomla™, WordPress or any other web-based application and reduce the load on your virtual server, which will enable you to continue using the current package instead of switching to a more powerful one, as you simply won’t need it. The Memcached platform is already being used by famous websites such as Reddit, Zynga and Wikipedia, which is an evidence of its effectiveness.
Memcached in Dedicated Web Hosting
Each dedicated server that’s ordered with our Hepsia Control Panel comes with Memcached already installed by default, so you can begin using this memory caching system the moment the server is ready, without the need to install or upgrade anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can use depends on the dedicated server that you’ve chosen, but since our servers are truly powerful and due to the fact that it is likely that you will host resource-heavy websites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use will be three gigabytes. This will enable you to accelerate the overall performance of very heavy websites with ease and you’ll observe the difference shortly after the Memcached caching system begins caching database calls. You can make the most of the system with any database-driven website, including those that are based on popular CMSs like Joomla™ and WordPress.